it's too late to go back and time and kill baby hitler (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 day ago by the_robot_from_planet_danger@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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at this point in time, the reverberations of the enormous movement of peoples and technologies caused by ww2 must reach nearly every person alive. whoever goes back in time to kill hitler will almost certainly cease to exist when a grandfather doesn't fight overseas or get displaced to a new country where they met the grandmother.

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[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

I'm pretty sure the butterfly effect also applies to the recursive nature of time travel, with each iteration changing the circumstances of the new continuity's time traveling in succession ad infinitum.